When Do You Think Sims 4 Will End?

I picked 2022. Not too far away and not too soon.

"aws200;d-934126" wrote:
What year do you think will be The Sims 4 last year before its no longer being developed for?
Sims 1 2000-2003
Sims 2 2004-2008
Sims 3 2009-2013
Sims 4 2014-20??

TS3 didn’t end in 2013. The store released plenty of new content in 2014.

"Dayvon64;c-16287710" wrote:
Considering that they are doing 1 EP a year and some people are still waiting for Seasons, University, Generations, and other EPs I do not see it ending in a few years. Also, they've stated to stop working on Sims 4 when there is nothing else to add.

They are never making a generations EP with Parenthood released, for sure. I can see TS4 getting two more EP max. It's probably end in either a GP or a few SP's.

I voted beyond 2025 because the thought of this forum then amuses me greatly. :D

I want it to go as long as the devs want to and are able to keep working on it. I'm sure Sims 3 players would say that game ended 'too early' for whatever arbitrary reason, and I wouldn't want Sims 4 to end just because of something arbitrary like the franchise anniversary. The gurus have said they expect it to go longer than previous versions, and not to take past release patterns as current ways to predict things, so I'm hoping for that.

"TheGoodOldGamer;c-16291745" wrote:
I voted beyond 2025 because the thought of this forum then amuses me greatly. :D

I want it to go as long as the devs want to and are able to keep working on it. I'm sure Sims 3 players would say that game ended 'too early' for whatever arbitrary reason, and I wouldn't want Sims 4 to end just because of something arbitrary like the franchise anniversary. The gurus have said they expect it to go longer than previous versions, and not to take past release patterns as current ways to predict things, so I'm hoping for that.

Unlikely that EA would draw the game out for more than 6-7 years. Definitely not over 10.

Going longer than previous installments could be as little as a year. A 2020 end for Sims 4 would be 7, which is 2 longer than Sims 3. Regardless, those plans are all determinant on the game continuing to be profitable. As any product ages it becomes less profitable, it’s just the reality of the product life cycle. With the price increases across several countries on Sims titles it will be interesting to see if that does pose a potential decline in sales.

"Dayvon64;c-16287710" wrote:
Considering that they are doing 1 EP a year and some people are still waiting for Seasons, University, Generations, and other EPs I do not see it ending in a few years. Also, they've stated to stop working on Sims 4 when there is nothing else to add.

Which would mean Sims 4 could go on forever we hardly got anything its taking multiple packs to get what we got in one expansion in the past. Nightlife for example Sims 4 it has taken Vampires > Dine Out > Bowling Night > City Living(Downtown) and we are still missing cars and romance which will now will be sold separately if we get either at all. Sims 4 could last forever if we are waiting for there to be nothing else to add or even just the basics.

I was going to vote 2020 but idk...I feel like there's room for more expansion packs (if they stick to the yearly schedule). This is just a random guess, but I personally hope Sims 4 will carry past 2020

EA has always released a new basegame after at most 5 years and announced each new basegame about 15 months before its release because then the new basegame has been so close to be finished that it really won’t change much anymore. The reason for the release of a new basegame after 5 years clearly always has been that EA didn’t believe that new packs for a more than 5 years old basegame would be high enough and I don’t see why this should have changed. Therefore I expect the next basegame to be announced in very few months such that it can be released most likely in the middle of 2019.

But who knows? EA can of course surprise us all by stopping the series or just release SPs for 10 more years. I just don’t see a reason for EA to do that at all. We will know much more in just a few months though - one way or the other ;)

"TheGoodOldGamer;c-16291745" wrote:
I voted beyond 2025 because the thought of this forum then amuses me greatly. :D

I want it to go as long as the devs want to and are able to keep working on it. I'm sure Sims 3 players would say that game ended 'too early' for whatever arbitrary reason, and I wouldn't want Sims 4 to end just because of something arbitrary like the franchise anniversary. The gurus have said they expect it to go longer than previous versions, and not to take past release patterns as current ways to predict things, so I'm hoping for that.

I don’t think actually many Sims 3 players say that game ended too soon. It has 11 expansions with quite some substance, enough to still enjoy it years later. Same goes for Sims 2 and 1. Wanting it to go on just to be amused by those not amused is what I’d call an arbitrary reason.

2024 makes the most sense.

They are launching The Sims Mobile in 2018 and they specifically said it would "be available alongside The Sims 4" and seems to be built so it can new content from TS4 in a transaction format.

Why launch a huge mobile game, and then end TS4 a year later and move onto TS5. That would make The Sims Mobile dead after a year basically.